I started watching El Marginal (probably based off of a recommendation from here) and it's masterful. Amazing characters - Diosito is a diamond. It seems to get better as the show goes on. I'm watching series 3 now. Check it out if prison dramas interest you.
Television Anyone recommend me any TV Shows?
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I was watching it and was like "Is it meant to be shit and stupid?" for a while and then they had the bring your daughter to work scene and then it clicked.
Finished that in January. Absolute mind feck of a show. Kept getting lost on who is who
It's brilliant, the best prison drama I've ever watched !
Not TV obviously but guessing if you like Tv, you’ll probably like films (but not starting a thread for it).
Cineworld is showing films on Saturday for £3. Depending on your local one, there are a lot on the list, including some classics like Godfather, Terminator…
https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/en/uk/blog/cineworld-day-2022-3-pound-tickets
Cineworld is showing films on Saturday for £3. Depending on your local one, there are a lot on the list, including some classics like Godfather, Terminator…
https://www.cineworld.co.uk/static/en/uk/blog/cineworld-day-2022-3-pound-tickets
Finished that in January. Absolute mind feck of a show. Kept getting lost on who is who
I have to google the characters and their connection to understand who is who.
I absolutely despise that Noah character. I don't know about the actor himself, but that character is overacted to a level i cannot deal with. The close ups of his tense face, the melodramatic way he walks and talks, the lot of it is irritating. Peaky Blinders is like that too but in that, they're all doing it. here, noah's the only one.
Ulrich is an example of near perfect acting.
Same. Arcane was amazing.
Finished Money Heist. Turned into absolute bollocks but had to finish it. It was complete hate-watching by the end with Sierra's tits being the only redeeming quality.
Anyone else watched Man in the High Castle? Just finished the first season - some good bits, some bad, a lot middle of the road. Are the other seasons worth sitting through?
The second season was the worst. Picked up after that. Didnt have me engrossed though.
Starts off not too badly 1st two seasons but goes way downhill after that.
Good concept, poorly executed.
Decided to watch Blake's 7 again. I'd forgotten how much I loved that show. The sets were low budget but the actors were first-rate and the stories engrossing which is a given as Terry Nation had a big hand in them.
Yea agreed. It is something really that should have been unreal given the material.
Watching the The Righteous Gemstones on HBO Max. John Goodman, Danny McBride, and AdamDeVine in a comedy series based on Southern television evangelists. Everything blown out of proportion to the max. Dumbest show ever but so funny.
I may give Dirk Glently's Holistic Detective Agency a try. Looks absurd/surreal .
I watched One of Us is Lying - please don't bother it was awful.
I watched One of Us is Lying - please don't bother it was awful.
Best show on Netflix. Some of the castings for older/younger version of characters is incredible for how close the resemblance is.
The Ulrich and Katarina arcs hit hard.
I gave up on Dark after the second series.
Dark is good but it also feels like homework. It's not a show where you glance at your phone for a second. If you do, you're lost.
Watched the first two episodes of Vikings: Valhalla. It's alright. I can imagine certain quarters of Twitter losing it over an African Viking Queen though!
Watched the first two episodes of Vikings: Valhalla. It's alright. I can imagine certain quarters of Twitter losing it over an African Viking Queen though!
Dark is brilliant. One of the best things i have watched on netflix.
As someone who never really watched tv shows growing up (25 btw) i'm kind of going through a phase of binge watching what are generally considered the best shows of the last 15-20 years. I've watched Lost (pretty good), Prison Break (first season awesome, the rest meh), X-files (ok but repetitive) and about to finish Fringe (took me a while to start enjoying it). I know some of you might not think they are the "best", but they're shows i've seen talked about a fair bit so thought i'd give them a shot. Does anyone have any recommendations on what i should try next?
Breaking Bad and The Wire.
Agree. I got Westworld vibes from it in terms of how you can get easily lost on what’s going on if you aren’t paying proper attention to it.
Based on your selections so far, you like Sci Fi or mystery kinda series.
I'd recommend the follow (Some can be hit and miss)
The Expanse
Person of Interest (Not Sci Fi really, and can be repetitive)
Mr Inbetween (Not sci fi either, but brilliant stuff, totally bingeworthy)
Will leave you with those 3 for now, I'm sure there will be others that will recommend a ton of other stuff.
I like the look of Breaking Bad but i've heard The Wire can take a bit of time to "get into" if that makes sense.
Honestly i didn't look them up before i started watching, i just thought if a lot of people thought it's good i may as well give it a go. I should probably start looking up what each show recommended is about so i can see which one i like the look of best. But yes i do enjoy Sci-Fi/Mystery type shows, i also like comedy and comedy shows. But comedy is subjective because everyone has their preferred type of humor, for example The Big Bang Theory was popular but i stopped watching pretty quickly because i only laughed maybe once maybe twice at most in an episode.
Cheers will check these out.
Whomever told you The Wire takes a bit of getting into is a friend you need to start socially distancing.
Here’s my personal list:
Tier 1
Gomorrah
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Game of thrones
Prison break S1 and 2
Lost S1-S3
Mandolorian
Stranger Things
Black Mirror
Narcos
Sopranos
Peaky Blinders
Tier 2/3
House if cards
Succession
Top Boy
Luther
Line of Duty
The boys
Money Heist
Power
Walking dead (earlier seasons)
Daredevil
Spartacus
House
Mad men
Mr Robot
Dexter
Heroes
Better call Saul
Boardwalk Empire
Smallville
Gotham
American horror
Ozark
Suits
First five seasons of 24
Just started watching the new Vikings: Valhalla series. On Netflix now. Set 100 years after the last season of Vikings. Its good so far imo. They mention some of the "legendary characters" from the previous Vikings series but since its a century removed I dont feel like so far you needed to have seen the previous series first.
You could do the initial HBO run - OZ, Sopranos, The Wire, in that order. OZ is the pioneer HBO drama, very raw and silly at times but mostly entertaining and you’ll fly through it. Sopranos and The Wire are the two greatest TV shows ever made.
After that it’s a matter of taste. I’m someone who would value Mad Men over Breaking Bad for example, but understand why others would differ.
Game of Thrones is an absolute must, regardless of the almost universal condemnation of the last season or two. I can confirm that it is a tad less infuriating when binged rather than holding fire a week at a time. And that's all I've got to say about that.
Just finished A Discovery of Witches.
Started off well but there were too many jarring things and characters in it - including accents.
Not a waste of time but I would never rewatch it.
Started off well but there were too many jarring things and characters in it - including accents.
Not a waste of time but I would never rewatch it.
I really enjoyed it apart from the last season which was poor due to them suddenly writing a character out who was pivotal, due to a scheduling conflict. Which was a shame.
I've just started rewatching a digitally remastered version of Edge of Darkness from the 80's. It is just as good as I remember it so far although the old 4:3 aspect ratio takes a while to get used to. Anyone who hasn't seen it should. Really captures the nuclear paranoia of the era.
Kind of jealous of you.
Start with The Sopranos and The Wire.
Everything else you watch afterwards will feel a bit shit thou.
• Dark
• Bron/Broen/The Bridge (the Danish version)
• Mr. Inbetween
Yeah Hanna isn’t too bad compared with the film which I really liked, but the Ray Donovan film is relatively average and seemed rushed.
Would add Breaking Bad to this. The Wire is my fave show of all time. So, so good.
mainly because it's in german and we have to read the subtitles. i tried to listen to the english dubbing, that's like trying to watch them do norse accents in Vikings, terrible.
Btw on vikings, i the last time i watched it i think it was the season 5a finale. They had that bald king and he was just crap. quite literally from the way he spoke i could tell right away 'he's not only a cockney eastender, he's a jewish one' sounded like alan sugar. looked him up and i was right.
thing is if an ave guy can spot that, why couldnt Hirst? the guy is terrible. Vikings did have a good start but became something stupid.
i also hated how they pretty much moulded their version of Alfred into Flint from black sails.
The last kingdom was miles better, but i think s4 fell off in story telling.